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ef2k ◴[] No.45949896[source]
> I’m still trying to figure out what kinds of open source are worth writing in this new era

Is there any upside to opensourcing anything anymore? Anything published today becomes training data for the next model, with no attribution to the original work.

If the goal is to experiment, share ideas, or let others learn from the work, maybe the better default now is "source available", instead of FOSS in the classic sense. It gives people visibility while setting clearer boundaries on how the work can be used.

I learned most of what I know thanks to FOSS projects so I'm still on the fence on this.

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xgulfie ◴[] No.45949925[source]
Sorry but source-available is probably going to get slurped up for training data as well

Microsoft already did this for all code in every public repo.

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1. pabs3 ◴[] No.45950273[source]
When are they going to start doing it for private repos too...
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2. johnnyanmac ◴[] No.45952305[source]
I wuldn't discount it already happening. They do own the most popular code hosing repository, after all.